Tsuno locality, Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Shikoku (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (33.5° N, 133.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 117.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Ladinian?‑Carnian

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• The outcrop is situated in a small riverbed, which was dry in March 2012, 2

•km north of the town of Tsuno (Tsuno district, Kochi prefecture). Reefal limestone blocks of tens of centimeters to few meters are embedded in green volcaniclastic and sparry calcite matrix. All of the collected blocks correspond to coral-sponge boundstone with minor amounts of microproblematica and algae. The preservation is good despite minor silicification. The taxonomic diversity is high (25 species were determined). The primary framebuilders (mainly corals and sponges) are encrusted by several generations of microbial crust and sessile organisms. There are a few voids with isopachous cements, and peloid-microproblematica grainstone-pack stone sediment and peloidal-clotted micrite fill the interstices between the skeletal elements

• reef limestone blocks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. Peybernes, J. Chablais, and R. Martini. 2015. Upper Triassic (Ladinian?-Carnian) reef biota from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Shikoku, Japan. Facies 61(20) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173348: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Polychaeta
 Terebellomorpha -
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Plexoramea cerebriformis
  -
Radiomura
  -
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Ladinella porata
  -
Isnella misiki
  -
? Isnella misiki Senowbari 2007
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
sp. 1
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia sp. Cuif 1966 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Tropiastraeidae
Thamnasteriamorpha okudai Stanley and Onoue 2015 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Celyphia zoldana Ott et al. 1980 demosponge
Uvanella irregularis Ott 1967 demosponge
Uvanella ? lamellata Senowbari-Daryan 1981 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Polysiphonidae
Zardinia perisulcata Dieci et al. 1968 demosponge
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
? Murania kazmierczaki Reitner 1992 demosponge
 Agelasida - Cryptocoeliidae
Cryptocoelia zitteli Steinmann 1882 demosponge
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Foraminifera
  -
Piallina bronnimanni Martini 1995
Piallina tethydis Rettori and Zaninetti 1993
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
? Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Ammobaculites/Reophax
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Dendronella articulata, "? Parachaetetes cf. cassianus" = Parachaetetes cassiana
"? Parachaetetes cf. cassianus" = Parachaetetes cassiana Flugel 1961
Wetheredellidae
  - Wetheredellidae
? Koskinobullina socialis Cherchi and Schroeder 1979